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Old October 25th, 2008, 06:40 PM   #1
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Turning up export speed on Mac Pro

So I finally bought a Mac Pro. Machine is a 2.8GHz with 12MB RAm and three 1TB drives.

Having trouble finding out how to maximize the 8 core processor speed. Anyone have a link to a tutorial?
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Old October 26th, 2008, 10:28 AM   #2
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Compressor and Shake can be optimized. Open Qmaster in the system preferences.
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Old October 26th, 2008, 12:50 PM   #3
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Here's an article on how to set it up

Making Compressor Multi-processor Aware
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Old October 26th, 2008, 02:14 PM   #4
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Great to know I was also not set on 4 thanks Nate.
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Old October 27th, 2008, 02:09 AM   #5
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I've seen conflicting reports that suggest you do not need or want to choose just 50% of your cores but should use them all
http://provideocoalition.com/index.p...e_speed_boost/
http://www.barefeats.com/octopro5.html

... and other reports that suggest you choose 1 less than the maximum (though darned if I recall where I read that).

Anyway, I would strongly suggest you experiment and see what settings provides the best performance for your system rather than accept any single decree no matter how well respected the source
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